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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 6-3-11 on page I-455 in "widetable --- An alternative to \protect \nxLenv  {tabular*}".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
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\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{348.0pt}

  \setlength\parindent{0pt}

%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{array,widetable}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\begin{widetabular}{287pt}
                 {*{2}{|>{\small\raggedright\arraybackslash}p{32mm}}|c|}
\hline\multicolumn{2}{|c|}{The p-columns} & Centered column\\\hline\hline
\empty
The Two Gentlemen of Verona   &
The Taming of the Shrew       &
The Comedy of Errors          \\\hline
Love's Labour's Lost          &
A Midsummer Night's Dream     &
The Merchant of Venice        \\\hline
The Merry Wives of Windsor    &
Much Ado About Nothing        &
As You Like It
                              \\\hline
Twelfth Night                 &
Troilus and Cressida          &
\ldots
%Measure for Measure           \\\hline
%All's Well That Ends Well     &
%Pericles, Prince of Tyre      &
%The Winter's Tale             \\\hline
%Cymbeline                     &
%The Tempest                   & \\\hline
\end{widetabular}
\end{document}
